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CBS and Zynga are teaming up to bring "Survivor" into the hands of fans with a multi-title mobile game partnership tied to the debut of the show's landmark 50th season. The collaboration marks the first time in the franchise's 25-year history that "Survivor" will be integrated into mobile games, rolling out themed events and gameplay across several Zynga titles. Participating games include "Words With Friends," "Zynga Poker," "Two Dots," "FarmVille 3" and "Dragon City," with content launching around the season premiere this month and continuing throughout the run. "Survivor 50" kicks off with a three-hour premiere Feb. 25, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The milestone season features 24 returning castaways from across the series' history and introduces fan-driven elements that allow viewers to influence the game for the first time. Zynga's integrations are designed to reflect "Survivor's" signature mix of strategy, competition and puzzles. "Words With Friends" will spotlight word-based challenges inspired by the show, while "Zynga Poker" will host watch events tied to weekly episodes. "Two Dots," "FarmVille 3" and "Dragon City" will each introduce limited-time challenges, themed rewards and season-long events aligned with the series. The partnership also includes a "Zynga Poker" sweepstakes offering players the chance to win a trip for two to attend the live "Survivor 50" finale in Los Angeles. Hosted by five-time Emmy winner Jeff Probst, "Survivor 50" celebrates the franchise's legacy while pushing into new interactive territory, extending the long-running reality competition beyond television and directly into fans' favorite games. The selected episodes included in the "Road to 50" special programming event are: Meanwhile, Survivor fans are getting their first look at how the returning players are divided into tribes. The stacked lineup, drawn from across the show's 26-year run, arrives in Fiji ready to make franchise history. Below is a first look at the season 50 tribes, along with a full cast photo capturing the scope of the landmark returnee season. Cila Tribe ("to shine" in Fijian): Joseph "Joe" Hunter, Savannah Louie, Christian Hubicki, Cirie Fields, Ozzy Lusth, Emily Flippen, Rick Devens and Jenna Lewis-Dougherty Kalo Tribe ("spirit" in Fijian) Jonathan Young, Dee Valladares, Mike White, Kamilla Karthigesu, Charlie Davis, Tiffany Ervin, Benjamin "Coach" Wade and Chrissy Hofbeck Vatu Tribe ("rock/stone" in Fijian) Colby Donaldson, Genevieve Mushaluk, Rizo Velovic, Angelina Keeley, Q Burdette, Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, Kyle Fraser and Aubry Bracco |
posted 2/19/2026 |
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CJ ENM, TBS Synch Up |
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Leading entertainment company CJ ENM is bringing a new non-scripted survival format, Synchro Game, to MIP London, marking its latest co-production with TBS. Synchro Game is a survival game show where brainpower and physical strength must operate as one system. When the sharpest minds are paired with the strongest bodies, survival becomes a test of perfect synchronization. The best "Brains" and Physicals" form teams and face challenges that push both intellect and endurance to the limit. Winning isn't about being smarter or stronger—it's about which team can combine their strengths, adapt faster than the rest, and outlast the competition. Produced by Nam Kyung-mo, in collaboration with Takehisa Mizuno, a producer from Global IP Studio of TBS, the show features a standout cast representing Korea's top intellectuals and physical competitors. Since launching their partnership in 2021, CJ ENM and TBS have steadily deepened their creative collaboration. Their first jointly produced non-scripted format, MUGEN LOOP (Infinite Loop), aired in Korea and Japan in 2025 and earned a nomination for Best Studio-Based Gameshow Format at the International Format Awards 2025. Building on this momentum, Synchro Game signals the next evolution of their cross-border partnership. Sebastian Kim, Head of CJ ENM's Content Distribution Business Unit, commented, 'Developed in partnership with Japan's top broadcaster, TBS, Synchro Game reflects a shared approach to building a well-made format from the ground up. Presenting the show at MIP London marks an important opportunity to position the format for international audiences'. Jun Fukai, Director of Global Business Development of TBS added: 'We are honored to once again collaborate with CJ ENM, one of the world's leading content companies. We are excited to see Synchro Game, with its truly distinctive and original world-building, expand globally just as our first co-development, Infinite Loop, has done'. Synchro Game will premiere with two episodes on February 23 and 24, and will be presented at MIP London as part of CJ ENM's expanding slate of non-scripted formats. |
posted 2/19/2026 |
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Canada's Drag Race Makes Her-story |
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The Drag Race universe is expanding with Canada's Drag Race: All Stars, which will feature the first-ever all-drag judging panel in her-story. Brooke Lynn Hytes will serve as host and resident judge alongside judges Priyanka (Canada's Drag Race Season 1 winner) and Jimbo (RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars Season 8 winner). The series will premiere later this year on the WOW Presents Plus streaming platform, with the full cast set to be announced at a later time. Canada's Drag Race: All Stars will consist of six one-hour episodes and will welcome back queens with unfinished business to compete for the title of Canada's Ultimate All-Star and a $100,000 cash prize. Canada's Drag Race: All Stars is World of Wonder's fourth series collaboration with Blue Ant Studios and Crave, in a list that includes Canada's Drag Race, Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World and Slaycation. |
posted 2/19/2026 |
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"Millionaire" Pays Dividends |
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The London company that controls the rights to Who Wants to be a Millionaire has delivered a jackpot of its own, paying a £20 million dividend from profits generated by the hugely successful quiz show. Latest accounts for Paddington based Sony Pictures Television UK Rights reveal that the program - known for its "phone a friend" and 50/50 lifelines - remains a formidable money spinner nearly 30 years after it first hit TV screens in Britain. The format, in which contestants answer questions with increasingly valuable prizes up to the £1 million jackpot, still generates 82% of Sony Pictures Television UK Rights revenues, according to latest accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 filed this month at Companies House. The £20 million dividend was the first paid by the company since the £15 million distribution in 2021. It is paid to the company's immediate parent Columbia Pictures Corporation, which is ultimately owned by the Japanese entertainment and electronics giant. Revenues increased 8.2% to £12.3 million during the year but the the expansion came with a surge in costs, driving down pre-tax profits by 31% to £5.2 million. The Millionaire format was broadcast in 45 territories around the world last year, including 17 opened up during an aggressive expansion over recent years. Since launch in 1998 it has been shown in more than 120 countries and has inspired the multi Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, and the play and ITV drama Quiz, about the "coughing major" Charles Ingram. The rights to the high stakes general knowledge TV quiz have been owned by Sony since 2008 when it paid £137.5 million to buy Dutch production company 2waytraffic. It had in turn bought the worldwide rights to the show two years earlier from Celador, the British production company co-founded by comedian Jasper Carrott. Celador created the format to the show which became an overnight success when it debuted on ITV in 1998 with Chris Tarrant as the host, instantly making famous catchphrases such as "Is the your final answer?". He was succeeded by Jeremy Clarkson in 2018. Since Sony took over the show, its UK TV rights subsidiary has paid it a total of £258.6 million in dividends, giving the studio almost double its money back. Millionaire Hot Seat, a spin-off series hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, launched last month and the accounts reveal that Sony has identified "opportunities in adding services such as in-show interactivity and off-air exploitation of rights to the core TV format licensing proposition." |
posted 2/19/2026 |
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Thursday Lightning Round |
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A Rat Has Appeared |
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Scabby the Rat appeared in an unusual place on Wednesday. With dozens of union staff picketing, the inflatable rodent — a near-universal symbol used by trade unions across the U.S. to call out employers for union-busting practices — was swaying in the wind on the corner of 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue in L.A., right outside the Writers Guild of America West headquarters. The Writers Guild Staff Union, which represents about 115 of the 160 guild employees, went on strike this week after repeatedly accusing WGAW management of unfair labor practices as the group sought to negotiate its first contract, including unlawfully firing a member of the organizing committee. The union staff organized last spring and have been bargaining their first contract with management intermittently since September. |
posted 2/18/2026 |
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It's been a newsy morning for an all-consuming giant media deal as Netflix agreed to let Warner Bros. Discovery engage in a week of conversation with Paramount. Will that engaging result in a formal, feasible, best-and-final rival offer for WBD by David Ellison's company? The giant streamer hinted it does not believe so but does hope the talks will allow everyone to move on, saying it granted the "narrow seven-day waiver … to fully and finally resolve this matter." A Warner statement and letter Tuesday morning seemed dubious about Paramount's chances. Even as WBD announced the new talks, the David Zaslav-led company again recommended in favor of the Netflix transaction and set a March 20 meeting for shareholders to vote on it. Warner acknowledged that Paramount's last amended offer in particular addressed some of its concerns but implied that important assurances remain squishy. It wants all contingencies — from final price to financing to covenants — laid out clearly in a formal transaction document, not dispersed in press releases, letters and non-binding tender offers. That includes Paramount's apparent intent to raise its offer from $30 a share in cash to $31 or higher. According to WBD, a representative of a Paramount banker relayed to a WBD board member — verbally, not in writing — that the Ellisons were willing to top the $30 if Warner agreed to engage, one example of something very key to nail down. Paramount has yet to describe any of its offers as "best and final," which is what Warner says it requires to move forward. Netflix has matching rights. Paramount is offering $30 a share in cash for all of WBD. Its latest bid added a new $0.25-per-share so-called "ticking fee" payable to WBD shareholders for each quarter its transaction has not closed beyond December 31, 2026, which it said comes to about $650 million in cash value each quarter. It also agreed to fund a $2.8 billion termination fee that would be payable to Netflix and ticked off a series of concessions around WBD's debt financing costs and obligations. Paramount still has not defined that bid as its last and best offer. |
posted 2/17/2026 |
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The 1% Club Expands |
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Magnum Media's hit quiz show The 1% Club has clocked up two more international sales, to Sweden's SVT and Italy's Mediaset, taking it to 15 territories worldwide. Created by Magnum's Andy Auerbach and Dean Nabarro, the show tests how contestants' brains work through a series of questions based on a scientific survey of the general public. Gameplay starts with the questions answered correctly by the largest number of the survey sample and progresses through to a final challenge which only the cleverest 1% answered correctly. The quiz debuted in the UK, where it airs on ITV and is currently midway through its fifth season, with international format sales handled by BBC Studios – the broadcaster's global production and sales business. Fox has renewed the US version for a third season; the German edition has so far aired for four seasons; Spain's Antena 3 has aired two seasons; in France the local version hit a new high of 3.3m viewers for its fourth season; and Israel has commissioned its third season. Beyond TV the brand has launched a digital extension on Smart TV platform Game.City and a Nintendo Switch version is coming soon while in the UK The Telegraph newspaper recently launched a daily game of The 1% Club for its subscribers. |
posted 2/18/2026 |
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Street Smarts |
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ITV Studios has unveiled a London TV Screenings slate spanning entertainment formats fronted by Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman and scripted projects from the producers behind I May Destroy You and It's a Sin. Among the formats on offer is The Neighbourhood, produced by Lifted Entertainment and The Garden for ITV and hosted by Norton. It sees families and households compete in a street-sized reality game, battling it out for the chance to take home a life-changing cash prize. |
posted 2/18/2026 |
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Wednesday Lightning Round |
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Jeopardy has reportedly been axed by ITV after two series and fans are not best pleased about it… The British version of the American game show first aired on ITV in 2024. Hosted by Stephen Fry, it quickly became a hit with fans. Jeopardy's last series aired in 2025 but fans hoping for a new series might be disappointed as it's been claimed that the show is not coming back to screens. Jeopardy! has been around for decades. The show first launched on NBC in 1964 and has been running pretty much consistently ever since on US TV. The show is different from usual quiz shows, as it sees a contestant given clues to a question in the form of an answer. They must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, by phrasing it in the form of a question. In 1983, a UK edition launched on Channel 4, before coming to an end in 1984. Between 1990 and 1993 it aired on ITV, before being cancelled. Between 1995 and 1996, it aired on Sky One, before, again, being cancelled. It was then brought back in 2024 with Stephen Fry at the helm. However, after two series it has now been reported that Jeopardy is not coming back to screens. As TVZone reports the program has been axed and there are currently no plans for a third series. |
posted 2/17/2026 |
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FOX today announced its Spring 2026 premiere dates, unveiling a dynamic slate of bold event programming, high-octane adventure and the return of proven hits. From high-stakes game shows and iconic culinary battles to heartfelt romance, immersive adventure, and epic event series, the spring lineup delivers must-watch programming anchored by familiar favorites and all-new original programming. Rob Lowe returns as host of The Floor with a special two-hour season five premiere Wednesday, Apr. 8 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), where contestants compete in dynamic head-to-head battles of trivia and strategy. Brains and the big yellow balls are back starting Monday, April 13 with host Joel McHale testing the nation's wits on The 1% Club (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), followed by the high-stakes, sink-or-swim quiz show The Quiz with Balls (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) hosted by Jay Pharoah. The iconic culinary series MasterChef takes the competition worldwide as it returns for Season 16 Wednesday, Apr. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), celebrating international cuisine with award-winning chef and executive producer Gordon Ramsay as host and judge, alongside renowned restaurateur Joe Bastianich and acclaimed chef and entrepreneur Tiffany Derry. Then, The Floor will make its time period premiere that evening (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). |
posted 2/17/2026 |
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Brain Age |
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French broadcaster M6 has ordered a primetime quiz show format from Banijay-owned producer DMLS TV. How Old Is Your Brain? (aka Quel Est L'âge de Votre Cerveau?) brings 200 contestants into a studio, where they face 50 questions across logic, memory and math that become increasingly difficult. Contestants compete to prove their mental agility for a chance to win €50,000 ($59,234.69), with former Fort Boyard host Olivier Minne lined up to lead the French version. Mathieu Vergne, chief exec at DMLS TV, described the show as "a thrilling, high-energy challenge" that will encourage co-viewing. "It's the kind of format that brings generations together, sparking laughter and competition," he said. "Whether you're 15 or 75, you'll find yourself playing along with your whole family and putting your brain to the test." James Townley, chief content officer of development at Banijay Entertainment, added that the show was a "cerebral showdown built for co-viewing and packed with international potential. "With DMLS TV's proven expertise in creating hit entertainment formats, How Old Is Your Brain? is poised to become a flagship show for M6 and we're confident it will get audiences hooked," Townley said. The format will be rolled out to international buyers at the London TV Screenings next week. |
posted 2/16/2026 |
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